We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.