Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.