Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

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

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.