My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.