A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.