The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

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!

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.