All mankind love a lover..

Genius Borrows nobly..

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate..

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on suc….

The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find i….

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone..

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country..

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist..

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts..

There is a tendency for things to right themselves..

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times….

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound intere….

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings..

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always estee….

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth..

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible..

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines….

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has ha….

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon..

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to b….

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower..