Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.