To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.