The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.