Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.