Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Books are embalmed minds.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.