The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.