Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

Love is the world's river of life