It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

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.