Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.