The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.