Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Am I no a bonny fighter?

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.