here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.

Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.

Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.