Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another