Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.