From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

You cannot hide the soul.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

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

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.