The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.