"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

"They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night"

"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

"Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions - repressed."

"Space is the stature of God."

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."

"Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear."

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

"Ask the young. They know everything."

"The passions of the young are vices in the old."

"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."

"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

"Tenderness is the repose of Passion"

"Tenderness is the rest of passion."

"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

"There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray."

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."

"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."

"God is the place where I do not remember the rest."

"When my friends are one-eyed, I look at their profile"

"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."

"It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it"

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate."

"Chance generally favors the prudent."

"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

"Never cut what you can untie."

"Children need models more than they need critics"

"Children need models rather than critics."

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."

"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself."

"Justice is the truth in action."

"When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it"

"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

"Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."

"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."

"Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone."

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."