One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.