If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.