Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

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 sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.