I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.