True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.