The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.