Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.