We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.