Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Thought makes everything fit for use.