Your work should be in praise of what you love.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

a good reader makes a good book

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.