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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...more

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A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

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Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacl...more

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.