With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.