Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.