Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Every natural action is graceful.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.