It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.