What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
It is always our inabilities that vex us.
The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Work like you don't need the money.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
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