But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.