It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.