Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.