I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.