Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.