Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.