Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.