Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
From Augustus Hare
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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