Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

Genius is its own end.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.