Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.