I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events And in today already walks tomorrow.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God loveth us, He made and loveth all.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Oh, Sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.