Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.