In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?