Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?