What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.