A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

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

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.