The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.