There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

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.