It is tranquil people who accomplish much.
What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
We bless and curse ourselves.
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.