Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.