Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

A man is known by the books he reads.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.