Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.