The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.