Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.