By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.