Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.