Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.