A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

- Abel Stevens

Genius is clairvoyant.

- Abel Stevens

Labor is the law of happiness.

- Abel Stevens

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

- Abel Stevens

Genius can never despise labour.

- Abel Stevens

Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.

- Abel Stevens

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

- Abel Stevens

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

- Abel Stevens