The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.