Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.