If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.