Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.