Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.