Truth is the first of jewels.

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.