If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.