Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.