People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.