Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.