And in today already walks tomorrow.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.