That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.