Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.