Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

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

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

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.

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