As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage

Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.