All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Teach love, for that is what you are.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another