Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.