Men are what their mothers made them.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.