A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.