The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.