The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.