Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.