The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.