He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.