That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.