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

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

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.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.