God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.