There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Flowers are the earth laughing.