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

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.