We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.