Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.