All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

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

A mind grows by what it feeds on.