The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.