Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

We boil at different degrees.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.