That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.