The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

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.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

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

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.