Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.