Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.