It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.