Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.