Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.