Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.