Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.