The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.