By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.