The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.
It is always our inabilities that vex us.
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.