Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.