A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

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.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies