Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.