One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!