Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.