Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.