There is more in every person's soul than we think.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.