A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.