The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.