Be a gift and a benediction.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.