"It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, but the soul."

"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."

"Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preëxists in the means, the fruit in the seed."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."