There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
What is called genius is the abundance of life or health.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
