Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.