To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.