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.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.