We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

The dearest events are summer-rain.