Loudness is impotence.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.