Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

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

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Many make the household but only one the home.

My soul is not a palace of the past.