No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

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