Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.