The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.