What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

Hope is the mother of faith.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.