The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Character teaches above our wills.

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.