To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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