Music causes us to think eloquently.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.