Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.