Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.