The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.