Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

The gift without the giver is rare.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.