Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!