The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.