To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
To be wicked does not insure prosperity — for the inn did not succeed well.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.