We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.