It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.