To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

The bravest are the tenderest.