Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

The most wretched have yet hope.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.