Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

To know is not less than to feel.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.