Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

Common sense is as rare as genius.