What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

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

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.