There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.