"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
"Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine."
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
