A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

Every thought was once a poem.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.