What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.