Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.