Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.