Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.