What comes from the heart goes to the heart

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.