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.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.