It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.