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

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.