Laughter means sympathy.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.