Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

The key to every man is his thought.

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.