The world we live in is but thickened light.

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.