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

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

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.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.