There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

A man is a god in ruins.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.