God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.