The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.