Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

What secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.