Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.