"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

"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."

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

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

"Smiles are the language of love."

"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

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

"No one but a fool is always right."

"In oratory the will must predominate."

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

"Children always turn to the light."

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

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

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

"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."

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