Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.