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

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.