Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

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

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

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.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

True places are not found on maps.