Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.