Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.