The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?