If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.