All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.