The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.

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

The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.

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

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.