He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
No one does anything from a single motive.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.