Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.