The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.