The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.