Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
True obedience is true freedom.
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week