Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.