We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.