The reality is more excellent than the report.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.