Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

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.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.