Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

Our best thoughts come from others.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.