Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.