Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages