By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

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.