We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.