Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!