Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

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.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.