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.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.