Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Every thought was once a poem.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.