He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

Humanity is the sin of God

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.