Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.