There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.