When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.