The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew 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.

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

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