It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.