To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.
Not every great man is a grand human being.
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.