Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

We are taught words, not ideas.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.