What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.