Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Birds never sing in caves.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.