What we need to know in any case is very simple.

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.