The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

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.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

The rain comes when the wind calls.