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

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

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

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.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.