Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.