Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.