A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.