A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.