Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.