And in today already walks tomorrow.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.