To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.