I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.