The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?