Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.