When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.