The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.