The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.
What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.
In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.