No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.