We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.