I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.