Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.