Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

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.