Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.