Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.