Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.