A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.