There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.