A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.