To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

No day is without its innocent hope.