It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.