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

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.