Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.