Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.