Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.