When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.