when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.