He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

Every wall is a door.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.