Our prayers are prophets.

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

The surest poison is time.