Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
What is reading but silent conversation?
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.