It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.