Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

Great men always have dogs.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Youth without faith is a day without sun.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.