Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.