When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, – a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Love is the symbol of eternity.
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord’s Prayer.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. – The shores of existence are strewn with them.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God – not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.
Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
Speech happens to not be his language.
Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.
Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving...