Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.