How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal