What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

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.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.