One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.