To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.