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It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide-but so quickly close again!
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It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.