If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.