Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

All the world loves a lover.

Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.