It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.