Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.