A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.