Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.