Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.