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.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.