The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.