The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.