The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.