To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.

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