Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.