Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

Love is the wine of existence.

Love is the river of life in this world.

Love is more just than justice.