As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.