The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.