Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness..

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawe….

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman..

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mo….

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book..

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate an….

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind..

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism..

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force..

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps..

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be..

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats..

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimed….

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him..

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaz….

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . ..

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity..

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom..

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood..

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly..

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs..