Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Look out! Behind you!

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.