Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

Read to live, not live to read.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.