People of humor are always in some degree people of genius..

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment..

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception..

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman..

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you ha….

A great mind must be androgynous..

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance..

And in today already walks tomorrow..

My eyes make pictures when they are shut..

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming..

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope..

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood..

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions..

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it..

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of since….

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage o….

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree..

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks..

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either streng….

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends..