Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.