The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.