It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

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.

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

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

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.