No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.