Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.