Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

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

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

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

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

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.

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