It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.