The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

God hides things by putting them near us.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.