There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

A man is known by the books he reads.

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.