You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.