We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

Who loses a day loses life.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.