Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.