A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.