Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Children always turn to the light.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

No one but a fool is always right.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Smiles are the language of love.