The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.