"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."

"The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously."

"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."

"Space is to place as eternity is to time."

"Justice is the truth in action."

"God is the place where I do not remember the rest."

"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."

"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

"The passions of the young are vices in the old."

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."

"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."

"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."

"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."

"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."

"Innocence is always unsuspicious."

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

"Space is the stature of God."

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."

"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."

"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."

"Children need models rather than critics."

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."