Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

True art is reverent imitation of God.