The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.