A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.