Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.