Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

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

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.