There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.