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.

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

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.