We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.