Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.