Every reform was once a private opinion.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.