Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful.

The great soul of this world is just.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.