From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she. " A human being is a human being.
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.
Putting love first means knowing that the universe supports you in creating the good, the holy, and the beautiful. It means knowing that you're on the earth for a purpose, and that the purpose itself will create opportunities for its accomplishment.