A great man is always willing to be little.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.