Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.