The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?

Fire is the most tolerable third party

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?