There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.