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

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.