A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.