Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.