There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

All things are known to the soul.