A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.