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

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.