It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.