Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.