She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.