Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.