The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

Travel is a fools paradise.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.