Character teaches above our wills.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

The eye is easily frightened.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

For everything you gain, you lose something.