Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.

It was too bleak to be alone, and so they could do nothing but cling to each other as broken beings, as human beings.

You are truly home only when you find your tribe

If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless.

The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.