It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

The fearless make their own way.

Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.