Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.