A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.