And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.