It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.