Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.