Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.