 A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. |
| Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. |
| The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. |
| Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. |
| Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. |
| Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. |
| Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. |
| To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. |
| No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. |
| People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. |
| Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. |
| As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. |
| Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. Topics: Christianity |
| Friendship is a sheltering tree. |
| Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. |
| A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. |
| If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? |
| Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. |
| Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. |
| Good and bad men are less than they seem. |
