The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.