For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.