There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.