I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.