The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

The gift without the giver is rare.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.