Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

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.