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

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

A great mind must be androgynous.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.