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

"Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books."

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

"Tenderness is the repose of passion."

"Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself."

"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."

"Never cut what you can untie."

"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."

"Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax."

"Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny."

"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."

"Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety."

"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."

"It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas."

"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 paper is patient, but the reader is not."

"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."

"Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together."

"Everything has its poetry."

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

"Think of the ills from which you are exempt."

"When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile."

"There are those to whom one must advise madness."

"Space is the stature of God."

"What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm."

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

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."

"Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course."

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."

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

"Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done."