I shot the ALBATROSS.
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.
What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth!
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
A great mind must be androgynous.
And in today already walks tomorrow.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon the mind, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.