The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.