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.

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

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.