Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.