Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.