It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.