True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Conventionality is not morality.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.