Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

When we have got it, we want something else.

Death pays all debts.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.