Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Example has far more followers than reason.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.