Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.