What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.