The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.