I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Language is fossil Poetry.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.