The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything