No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.