There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.