The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.