A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
The borrower runs in his own debt.
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.