Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.