How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

Surely joy is the condition of life.