It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.