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

Hope is the best part of our riches.

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

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

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

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.