Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

Pride ruined the angels.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.