A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.