In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.