When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.