Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.