Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.