We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

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

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Caution is the lower story of prudence.