To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.