Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.