There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.