We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.