There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.