Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.