Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Inspiration must find answering inspiration.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.