Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.