Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If it could be satisfactorily shown that they esteemed it authorized and transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us. We know how inveterately they were attached to their Jewish prejudices, and how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge their views. On every other subject succeeding times have learned to form a judgement more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.