To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.