The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.