Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.