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

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.