To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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

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

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.