Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
She commands who is blest with indifference.
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
The sunset glow of self-possession.
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.