“We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.”

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.”

“The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.”

“The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.”

“Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!”

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”