A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.