When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.