Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.