Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

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

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.