My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson