Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.