It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.