All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

The soul circumscribes all things.

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.