A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

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.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.