I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

Calmness is always godlike.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

Where there is no vision a people perish.