There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.