Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.