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.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
The next best thing to being witty is to quote another's wit
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
The worst deluded are the self - deluded
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God
To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound
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