The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.