Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.