There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.