I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

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.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

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

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.