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.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

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?

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.