It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Some will always be above others.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.