Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.