More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
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.
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.