If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.