We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

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

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.