We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.