Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.