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

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

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

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.