The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Society is a hospital of incurables.