Experience is only half of experience.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.