We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.