There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.