The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.