Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.