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

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.