Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
No one does anything from a single motive.
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.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
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.