It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.