A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.
Only to youth will spring be spring.
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.