The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold