Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

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.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

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