Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.