The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Earth laughs in flowers.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.