There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves