Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

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

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.