Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!