Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.