The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.