Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.