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