Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
