I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.