Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.