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

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.