The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.