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

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Time has only a relative existence.