The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.