O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.
Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.