“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.”

“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.”

“Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.”

“The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

“He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home.”