The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?