Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.