Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue..

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative v….

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men..

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at or….

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing..

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again..

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients..

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action..

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact..

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist..

I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not fo….

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor..

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity..

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply..

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity..

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions..

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo..

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are….

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny..

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus..

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms o….