Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
Trees indeed have hearts.
Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.