Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.