Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

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.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.