“So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.”

“It is true that in general, energy which is aimed at positive factors usually obtains better results than energy invested in resistance!”

“Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.”

“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.”

“The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on the unnaturalness of everything in the light of the supernatural.”

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”