Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

Impatience never commanded success.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.