How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.