The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwell Closed in Fancy’s rainbow shell
