"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world..."
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
"'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio."
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave."
