Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.