A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.