Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.