Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

The eye is easily frightened.

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

All high beauty has a moral element in it.