Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.