Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!