By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.