Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.