Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

Example has far more followers than reason.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.