It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.