If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.