The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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