I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

What you are comes to you.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.