Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.