The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.