Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.