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.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.