Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish. - Coventry Patmore

How light the touches are that kiss
The music from the chords of life!

He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth.

Ninety-nine men in a hundred are natural men, that is, beasts of prey; and it is mere insanity, in business matters, to deal with a stranger upon any other assumption than that he is a natural man, though we should veil our knowledge of the actual fact by a courteous recognition in words and manners of his better possibilities.