Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

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