There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.