We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.