“The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.”

“The sun shines today also.”

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.”

“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints”