All promise outruns performance.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.