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

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.