The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

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.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.