Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.