Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.