He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

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

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.