Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.