It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.