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

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.