The eye is the best of artists.
The virtue of books is to be readable.
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.