If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.