In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.