The language of Friendship is not words but meanings.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
The Friend does not count his Friends on his fingers; they are not numerable.
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.[Also known as:]The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
The amount of it is, the imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
That government is best which governs least.
