Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
History after all is the true poetry.
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.