But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.