In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.