Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.