The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.