How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.