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

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

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

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.