Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.