The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

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.