Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.