A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.