The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.

Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.