Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.