There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.