Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.