Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
Pure by impure is not seen.
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.