Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

Beauty rests on necessities.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.