Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.