The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

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.

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

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.