Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs,

"The Gods are to each other not unknown."

Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth