A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

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.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.