Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.