Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.