There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.