What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

The age of miracles is forever here.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.